Oman
Northern Oman
Muscat Governorate

Muscat

Muscat is the capital of the Sultanate of and its most important and populous city. It has been inhabited since at least 1000 BCE and for centuries was an important trading port on the Maritime Silk Road.
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  • Type: City with 29,900 residents
  • Description: capital of Oman
  • Also known as: “Maskat”, “Masquat”, and “Muskat”
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Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Al Alam Palace and National Museum.

Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the ceremonial palace of the Sultan of Oman. It is used for official functions like welcoming foreign dignitaries and heads of state.

Museum
Photo: Mohammedkhamisnasserkhamis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The of the is a museum located in . It was developed as a result of a ten-year collaboration between the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, the Royal Estate Affairs of Oman, Jasper Jacob Associates, and Arts Architecture International Ltd, and opened to the public in 2016.

Fort
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Fort Al-Mirani is a fort located in the harbor of the city of , . The fort existed prior to the Portuguese invasion and was later rebuilt by the Portuguese in 1587. The fort became the first to use cannons in Oman.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Haramil and Riyam.

Neighborhood
is a village in , in northeastern .

Neighborhood
is a village in , in northeastern .

Neighborhood
is a village in , in northeastern . It is home to a small park, the Park, which faces the Arabian Sea.

Muscat

Latitude
23.6124° or 23° 36′ 45″ north
Longitude
58.5938° or 58° 35′ 38″ east
Population
29,900
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
IATA airport code
MCT
United Nations Location Code
OM MCT
Open location code
7HMWJH6V+WG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 226881400
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
287286
Wiki­data ID
Q3826
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Muscat” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Muskat”
  • Afrikaans: “Maskat”
  • Albanian: “Maskat”
  • Albanian: “Muskat”
  • Amharic: “መስከት”
  • Arabic: “مسقط، عمان”
  • Arabic: “مسقط”
  • Aragonese: “Mascat”
  • Armenian: “Մասկատ”
  • Arpitan: “Mascate”
  • Asturian: “Mascate”
  • Asturian: “Masqat”
  • Awadhi: “मस्कट”
  • Azerbaijani: “Maskat”
  • Balinese: “Muskat”
  • Banjar: “Masqat”
  • Bashkir: “Маскат”
  • Basque: “Maskat”
  • Belarusian: “Маскат”
  • Bengali: “মাস্কট”
  • Bengali: “মাস্কাট”
  • Bosnian: “Maskat”
  • Bosnian: “Muskat”
  • Breton: “Masqat”
  • Bulgarian: “Маскат”
  • Catalan: “Masqat”
  • Cebuano: “Muscat”
  • Central Bikol: “Muscat”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەسقەت”
  • Chechen: “Маскат”
  • Chinese: “Muscat”
  • Chinese: “馬斯喀特”
  • Chinese: “马斯喀特”
  • Chuvash: “Маскат”
  • Croatian: “Muskat”
  • Czech: “Maskat”
  • Danish: “Muscat”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Masqat”
  • Dotyali: “मस्कट”
  • Dutch: “Mascate”
  • Dutch: “Maskat”
  • Dutch: “Masqat”
  • Dutch: “Muscat”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مسقط”
  • Esperanto: “Maskato”
  • Estonian: “Masqaţ”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Muscat”
  • Finnish: “Masqat”
  • Finnish: “Muscat”
  • French: “Mascate”
  • French: “Masqat”
  • French: “Muscat”
  • Galician: “Mascate”
  • Georgian: “მასკატი”
  • German: “Maskat”
  • Greek: “Μουσκάτ”
  • Gujarati: “મસ્કટ”
  • Haitian: “Mascat”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Muscat”
  • Hausa: “Muskat”
  • Hawaiian: “Muscat”
  • Hebrew: “מאסקט”
  • Hebrew: “מסקט”
  • Hindi: “मस्कट”
  • Hindi: “मस्क़त”
  • Hungarian: “Maszkat”
  • Icelandic: “Múskat”
  • Ido: “Maskat”
  • Ido: “Muscat”
  • Iloko: “Muscat”
  • Indonesian: “Muskat”
  • Interlingue: “Muscat”
  • Irish: “Muscat”
  • Italian: “Mascate”
  • Italian: “Muscat”
  • Japanese: “マスカット”
  • Kabyle: “Masqaṭ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Masqat”
  • Kannada: “ಮಸ್ಕಟ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮಸ್ಕಾತ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Maskat”
  • Kazakh: “Маскат қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Маскат”
  • Kirghiz: “Маскат”
  • Komering: “Muskat”
  • Korean: “무스카트”
  • Kurdish: “Mesqet”
  • Latin: “Mascate”
  • Latin: “Mascatum”
  • Latvian: “Maskata”
  • Ligurian: “Muscàt”
  • Lithuanian: “Maskatas”
  • Livvi: “Maskat”
  • Lombard: “Mascate”
  • Luxembourgish: “Maskat”
  • Macedonian: “Маскат”
  • Macedonian: “Мускат”
  • Maithili: “मस्कट, ओमान”
  • Maithili: “मस्कट”
  • Malagasy: “Masqat”
  • Malay: “Masqat”
  • Malay: “Muscat”
  • Malayalam: “മസ്കറ്റ്”
  • Maltese: “Muscat”
  • Marathi: “मस्कत”
  • Mazanderani: “مسقط”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Muscat”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Muscat”
  • Minangkabau: “Muskat”
  • Mingrelian: “მასკატი”
  • Mongolian: “Маскат”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مسقط”
  • Nepali: “मस्कट, ओमान”
  • Nepali: “मस्कट”
  • Northern Frisian: “Maskat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Muskat (Oman)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Muskat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Muscat”
  • Norwegian: “Muskat”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mascate”
  • Oriya: “ମସ୍କଟ”
  • Ossetian: “Маскат”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਸਕਟ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਸਕਤ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਸਕ਼ਤ”
  • Papiamento: “Muscat”
  • Persian: “مسقط”
  • Piemontese: “Mascate”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Muskat”
  • Polish: “Maskat”
  • Portuguese: “Mascate”
  • Portuguese: “Muscat”
  • Portuguese: “Muskat”
  • Pushto: “مسقط”
  • Romanian: “Muscat”
  • Russia Buriat: “Маскат”
  • Russian: “Маскат”
  • Sardinian: “Mascate”
  • Scots: “Muscat, Oman”
  • Scots: “Muscat”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Muscat”
  • Serbian: “Маскат”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Maskat”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Muscat”
  • Shona: “Muscat”
  • Silesian: “Maskat”
  • Sindhi: “مسقط”
  • Sinhala: “මස්කට්”
  • Slovak: “Maskat”
  • Slovenian: “Maskat”
  • Slovenian: “Muškat”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مسقط”
  • Spanish: “Mascate”
  • Spanish: “Masqat”
  • Swahili: “Muskat”
  • Swedish: “Muskat”
  • Tagalog: “Maskate”
  • Tagalog: “Muscat”
  • Tajik: “Масқат”
  • Talysh: “Maskat”
  • Tamil: “மஸ்கட்”
  • Tamil: “மஸ்கத்”
  • Telugu: “మస్కట్”
  • Thai: “มัสกัต”
  • Tibetan: “མི་སི་ཁ་ཁྲི།”
  • Turkish: “Maskat”
  • Turkmen: “Maskat”
  • Udmurt: “Маскат”
  • Uighur: “مۇسكات”
  • Ukrainian: “Маскат”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Maskat”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Muscat”
  • Urdu: “مسقط”
  • Uzbek: “Maskat”
  • Venetian: “Mascate”
  • Veps: “Maskat”
  • Vietnamese: “Muscat”
  • Volapük: “Mäskat”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Muscat”
  • Welsh: “Muscat”
  • Western Armenian: “Մասքաթ”
  • Western Frisian: “Maskat”
  • Western Panjabi: “مسقط”
  • Wu Chinese: “马斯喀特”
  • Yoruba: “Muscat”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬斯喀特”
  • Zulu: “i-Muscat”
  • “Mascate”

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